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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Dictionary Results for dismal:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
dismal
    adj 1: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the
           war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a
           disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal
           dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim
           rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, dingy,
           disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry,
           drab, drear, dreary]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dismal \Dis"mal\, a. [Formerly a noun; e. g., "I trow it was in
   the dismalle." Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as
   suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. d[^i]me, tithe, the
   phrase dismal day properly meaning, the day when tithes must
   be paid. See Dime.]
   1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.]
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            An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. --Spenser.
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   2. Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the
      feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a
      dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.
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            Full well the busy whisper, circling round,
            Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned.
                                                  --Goldsmith.
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            A dismal description of an English November.
                                                  --Southey.

   Syn: Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark; ominous; ill-boding;
        fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous;
        calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy;
        unfortunate; unhappy.
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